v. Obs. Also 5–6 excom(m)yne. [ad. F. excommunier, ad. L. excommūnicāre: see EXCOMMUNICATE.]
1. trans. (Eccl.) = EXCOMMUNICATE 1.
1483. Caxton, Cato, F ij. Alle those that byleve the sortleges and devynours been excommunyd.
1502. Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W., 1506), I. vii. 77. To be excommyned & departed by mortall synne from … the holy chyrche catholyke.
1608. T. Morton, Preamb. Incounter, 27. He was admonished and excommuned before he was degraded.
2. transf. With double obj.: To excommunicate or exclude from.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, II. IV. i. 15. We cannot recover Paphos proportionably into this Map, behold it therefore peeping in, but excommuned the lines thereof.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, I. vi. 21. Poets indeed, were excommun’d Plato’s Common-Wealth.
